A judge decided that Idaho’s laws didn’t apply in the case, because of a jurisdictional technicality: The crash happened on a military bombing range that isn’t open to the public.
Crime & Courts
State brings 55 more charges against Petersburg fishing lodge
The charges say the two men helped their clients take too many halibut and did not accurately document the halibut that was caught.
Kotzebue women’s deaths at former mayor’s property did not get thorough investigations, report says
Two Kotzebue women died two years apart at the home of former Northwest Arctic Borough Mayor Clement Richards Sr. No one has been charged in connection with either death.
Alaska’s domestic violence council explores restorative justice methods in court sentencing
Restorative justice is a method of resolution wherein people who are affected by a crime work together to address the harm caused and put things right.
Alaska targeted by drug traffickers seeking higher profits, authorities say
In two related cases indicted in federal court last month, more than a dozen people are accused of trafficking a total of about a 100 pounds of fentanyl and 25 pounds of meth within Alaska.
Proposed class-action lawsuit claims Alaska prisons are holding people without criminal charges
A woman from Stebbins is suing the state Department of Corrections, alleging that she and many others have been unconstitutionally held for more than 48 hours without being charged.